From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Colombo Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:56:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [Re: [RNDGETENTCNT ioctl]] Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On 8 Feb 2002, Eric wrote: > Marco Colombo wrote: > > > I'm pretty willing to grab another tree and compile it, > > but I'd like to know which one in advance instead of going > > on by trial & error. The system is Red Hat 6.2 so I need a > > 2.2.x kernel. > > As DaveM mentioned, that was a patch against the 2.4.x series > but the patch is remarkably similar for the 2.2.x kernels. > This is against the linux_2_2 branch of CVS at vger.samba.org. > If this does not patch cleanly into your RedHat sources, I am > certain a little initiative will get you the rest of the way: Eric, patching is no problem B-) that's what I was meaning with my first message. Now, I've discovered that my Ultra 1 has a very low entropy bits count, as I was suspecting (it's an "headless" server, only network and disk I/O). I guess I need an entropy source of some kind, but this is a story for another list. B-) I'll look closer at the code to try and understand the issues of 32->64bit conversion. Before running an entropy collector daemon, I need the others 'R' ioctls (RNDADDENTROPY as a minumum). Some of them do take int * as the third argument, so I guess I need some hacking. If I manage to produce an useful patch, I'll post it. Thanks for your support. .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ Colombo@ESI.it